Mother Theresa...the closeted Atheist.

Seems not even the most pious of the Christians fully believe the bullshit! Who knew? Here's an interesting excerpt from an article that I thought you lovely peeps would enjoy:

#5. Mother Theresa Lost Her Faith Decades Before She Died

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If you ask a random person to name a saint, they'll almost certainly reply, "What, like Mother Theresa?" If you're looking for a modern figure who embodies the virtues of Christianity, you can't do much better -- her name is synonymous with selfless servitude.

As an Albanian nun, she relocated to an Indian monastery, noticed the plight of the local populace, and decided she had had enough of poverty's shit. Theresa then took to the streets and started tirelessly helping anyone who needed her aid. Over time, she became the protector of the poor, a spiritual anchor for millions, and generally the kind of ecclesiastical presence that can make even the hardiest of cardinals let out a Keanu-style "whoa."

Evert OdekerkenMother Theresa, seen here with entourage of divine light and a heavenly chorus.

But how could this Nobel Peace Prize-winning, three-quarters canonized woman manage to keep her faith while waddling elbow deep in the hellish conditions of Indian poverty? It turns out she didn't.

Shortly after Mother Theresa's death, her Vatican caretakers found dozens of letters written by her, along with a note that said they should all be burned without reading. Naturally, such instructions can only lead to one thing: The letters were immediately and gleefully ripped open to see what she had to hide.

Ian Tyas/Hulton Archive/Getty Images"Dear Penthouse ..."

Here's what they found:

What do I labor for? If there be no God, there can be no soul. If there is no soul, then, Jesus, you also are not true.

Ouch. She must have been going through a pretty rough patch when she wrote that, right? Wait, it gets worse. Here she offers some spiritual support to a man of the cloth:

Jesus has a very special love for you. As for me, the silence and the emptiness is so great that I look and do not see, listen and do not hear.

Keystone/Hulton Archive/Getty Images"Jesus has always been a sexist prick like that."

Shit, that's some dark stuff right there. Surely, there must be at least some rays of light in her existence ...

No faith, no love, no zeal. [Saving] souls holds no attraction, heaven means nothing ... it has been like this more or less from the time I started "the work."

... yeah, nope. She's so far down the "Screw you, God" line that she's even putting quotes around the whole working with the poor thing, which you may recognize as pretty much her entire shtick.

Fox Photos/Hulton Archive/Getty ImagesKind of like how the Three Stooges performed "the slapstick."

The letters are chock-full of musings like these, because Mother Theresa had almost completely lost her faith over two decades before her death. In fact, she stopped praying as early as the late 1970s. The life she led among the poorest of the poor dealt her a heaping helping of human suffering, and it looks like she just flat out became jaded in the process.

Yet, without an ounce of faith to aid her in her impossible mission, she still found the strength to soldier on: Mother Theresa kept up appearances for over 20 years, because people still depended on her. Let that sink in for a moment: 20 years, with nothing to rely on, just going through the motions in a pit of despair because she didn't want to let people down. Holy crap, the woman really was a saint.

Also check out Christopher Hitchens "The Missionary Position." It's not his best work, but he elaborates on the conditions of her "hospice" wards; discusses that while she didn't give pain meds to AIDS patients who were dying she flew to the best hospitals in the world for her own care; and the millions of dollars raised by her Sisters that the Vatican conveniently doesn't have an exact count of.